What’s bugging me? I had a friggin’ stroke. A small one, no permanent damage, but it was a crappy way to start the month.
Was driving behind this car with three teenager-young adults when the kid in the passenger side took it upon themselves to chuck a water bottle over their car, hitting the roof of an oncoming car. The woman in the oncoming car almost swerved out of her lane as the bottle exploded all over her car while everyone in the other car yukked it up.
About a mile up the road they turned onto a side street and pulled over, I slowed down rolled down my window and gave them an earful. What a bunch of ASSHOLES!!! They could have seriously caused an accident!
Look, I get the throw the beer bottle at a mailbox late at night. Many of us have been there. Stupid, but you can’t kill a mailbox.
Lobbing a projectile at another car? Not cool dude. Furthermore thank goodness these nitwits didn’t hit some hillbilly with a gun rack and a pickup with a V8!
I’d think a short conversation on the phone with the cops would’ve been called for in that situation.
Yeah, he’s a really good dad. When he and his wife got divorced he immediately got him into counseling to help deal with some of the emotional challenges he experienced, and he’s definitely supportive of the kid. Oh, well…got it figured out, just like adults.
This doesn’t sound like a mini-rant. I’m glad you’re ok and hope the month gets better, quickly. Did you know you were having a stroke in time to get to the ER and get the drugs they give? Since I am in the “stroke age-group” I am interested in details!
What’s bugging someone in June? June bugs, of course! That’s a 14 year old GQ head, by the way. Zombie June Bugs!! :eek:
He registered just to post that, his very first post. Reported.
Bureaucracy, man. My husband and I run a small business; I do all the accounting. We have to collect and pay GST (Goods and Services Tax) for our services. Canada Revenue, in their infinite wisdom, has decreed that GST returns for businesses are due June 15th of the year. Your payment, however, is due April 30th. I ran afoul of that last year - I went to submit our GST return by the due date, and we were already a month and a half in arrears. Sigh. Okay, make a note for next year - the due date is the due date, but not really.
Fast forward to this year - I’ve got my ducks in a row, and I have made our payment by April 30th, in spite of not having to do our GST return until June 15th. Today I submitted our GST return electronically. The last question is, “Are you going to make a payment in the next seven days? Yes or No/Don’t know.” Since everyone has to pay the GST we owe a month and a half before it is due, how about giving us an option for, “I already paid it, you simpering idiots?” Sorry, lost my head there for a second - I had a faint hope of something government related making sense.
Thank you, Beck. My son found his phone today, in the wreckage of the car. And it works! I’m so glad he has that much, at least.
How the fuck am I turning thirty eight tomorrow?!? I’m still a bewildered college grad … who the fuck is this widow, who’s pushing 40 and moved into my clothes?
You stop aging at 39 (again). Solicitations on your coming birth anniversary. Enjoy your last year of aging. 
(I won’t tell if you won’t)
Every year for the past thirteen years, I’ve told my students I’m 18 years old. One bright junior asked me, “Okay, sure. So, how many times have you been 18 years old?” Of course, my answer to her was “18”. 
What kayT said. Glad it was a small one.
Apparently he was offended that some of the posters there were so arrogant that they made air quotes in their posts.
I was stymied by how you’d make air quotes on a message board…
Is there an [airquote] tag? Or did a poster actually say “BTW, I’m making air quote marks with my fingers.”? Oh, maybe someone had to post the first half of a response, then come back to say “Sorry for the delay, I needed both hands so I could wiggle the first two fingers of each hand, signifying punctuation that was too meta to just type.”
But no, I read the whole thread, there was none of the above.
Has everyone gone crazy on this board? Is it a full moon or something?
I turned 38 six months ago. I still haven’t gotten used to the fact that I’m officially almost 40.
Seen on a T-shirt: “18 with 20 years’ experience”.
Nava, 18 with 32 years’ experience…
I like it. Actually, this coming November, I’ll be 18 with 42 years’ experience.
Now for my next trick…
When my older sister turned 50, I gave her a Happy 40th Birthday card.
Inside it said “Don’t you wish it was only 40?” 
She just looked at me and nodded.